James Hillyer, a retired university professor whose life was evocatively described in Wright's novel October, is now barely existing after the death of his beloved daughter in her forties. On a whim, he tries to locate the woman he fell...
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Auteur:O'Keefe, MollySommaire:Marco: I have loved Rosa since I met her in high-school English, even though the odds have always been stacked against us: she's the child of criminals, resigned to a bleak future; I'm the heir to a successful construction company,...
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Auteur:Frey, JamesSommaire:James Frey pens the candid memoir of his recovery from drug and alcohol addictions with My Friend Leonard. After a stint in jail, James is rocked by further tragedy. Teetering on the brink of breakdown, he turns to a friend from rehab,...
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Auteur:Gideon, C. H.Sommaire:The Metal Legion is committed to saving all, despite their differences, despite their loyalties. Leeroy Jenkins commits the Metalheads to a battle that makes them traitors to the Republic and enemies of the Solarians. It's the no-win...
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After seven years in prison, Duncan Malone returns to Washita, Texas desperately wanting to reclaim his family's farm. But it is now owned by Franki Taylor, a young unmarried woman who is six months pregnant. In the eyes of the...
- Auteur:Laukkanen, OwenSommaire:
A veteran Marine and an ex-convict find themselves on opposite sides of the law in this propulsive new thriller from award-nominated suspense master and "powerhouse writer" Owen Laukkanen (Kirkus Reviews). Could your closest...
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Auteur:Hugo, VictorSommaire:The novel that inspired the beloved Broadway musical: Jean Valjean's immortal adventure among the dispossessed of nineteenth-century Paris. Widely considered Victor Hugo's masterpiece, Les Miserables is both an epic story and a...
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Auteur:Pickett, PrernaSommaire:Corey has just been released from jail, and all he wants is a new beginning. But when his former gang comes knocking, Corey agrees to vandalize the home of Kent Hopper, the prosecutor who put him away. To erase the guilt she carries...
- Auteur:Sheldon, SidneySommaire:
Tracy Whitney is on top of the world. She is young, beautiful, intelligent, and about to marry into wealth and glamour — until, betrayed by her own innocence, she finds herself in prison, framed by a ruthless mafia gang and abandoned by...
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Auteur:Turow, ScottSommaire:State Senator Paul Gianis is a candidate for mayor of Kindle County. His identical twin brother, Cass, is newly released from prison, twenty-five years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend Dita Kronon. When Evon Miller...
- Auteur:Kelman, JamesSommaire:
Winner of the Booker Prize. "A passionate, scintillating, brilliant song of a book." Guardian Sammy's had a bad week. Most of it's just a blank space in his mind, and the bits that he can remember, he'd rather not. His wallet's gone,...
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Auteur:Dakers, DianeSommaire:Fiona’s dad comes home after sixteen months and eight days in jail. Along with her mother and family friends, she awkwardly welcomes him home. Uncle David is there, because he picked Dad up at jail. Dad’s best friend Simon, his wife May...
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Auteur:Gideon, C. H., Martelle, Craig, Wachter, CalebSommaire:The Brick was an inhospitable planet in Finjou space. Humans settled there anyway, and now the aliens want them gone. Captain Xi Bao, your orders are to conduct Operation Red Rock. Evacuate the human colonists from the Brick before the...
- Auteur:Miller, Reuben JonathanSommaire:
Reuben Miller, a chaplain at the Cook County Jail in Chicago and later a sociologist studying mass incarceration, spent years alongside prisoners to understand the lifelong burden that a single arrest can entail. His work revealed that...
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Auteur:Dickens, CharlesSommaire:When the eccentric Miss Havisham and her beautiful niece Estella draw orphan Pip into the decayed luxury of their world, he begins to form desires above his station. An unexpected fortune from a mysterious donor grants Pip a chance at...
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Auteur:Wachter, Caleb, Gideon, C. H.Sommaire:An ice planet. Three species vying for power. Then the humans arrive. Thrust into the middle of combat with enemies from the air, ice, and space, the Metal Legion pulls no punches, hitting back with everything they have. Who comes...
- Auteur:Brown, LarrySommaire:
After serving several years in prison, Glenn Davis returns to his rural Mississippi home, where he forges a path of destruction and violence that finally leads him to a stand-off with Sheriff Bobby Blanchard.
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Auteur:Sweet, CassieSommaire:Theodyne Thespacian is a thief. Caught and imprisoned, he's done his time and vowed never to return to the life of pulse-racing excitement and easy money. But when one of his former associates tells him about the Eye of Truth — an...
- Auteur:Gray, Shelley ShepardSommaire:
When Jennifer Smiley's grandmother leaves her an old farmhouse, she can't pass up the chance for a new start. But she soon learns there is a lot to uncover in Ross County, and more than one secret better left buried.
- Auteur:Baldacci, DavidSommaire:
Private eye and WWII veteran Aloysius Archer heads to Los Angeles, the city where dreams are made and shattered, and is ensnared in a lethal case involving Hollywood and mob-ridden Las Vegas.
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